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Question: When you are involved in free time activities to what extent do they enable you to strengthen your relationships with other people?
Choices: "Very much" "A lot" "Somewhat" "A little" "Not at all"
Data: % of "Very much" "A lot"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea74.5%
2 Argentina70.7%
3 Slovenia70.6%
4 Dominican Republic69.9%
5 South Africa65.1%
6 Latvia64.0%
7 Czech Republic63.1%
8 Chile59.2%
9 Ireland58.1%
10 Hungary56.7%
11 Uruguay56.6%
12 Switzerland55.9%
13 United States54.7%
14 New Zealand53.4%
15 Belgium52.4%
15 Norway52.4%
17 United Kingdom52.3%
18 Australia51.4%
18 Finland51.4%
20 Croatia49.8%
21 Austria49.7%
22 Philippines49.6%
23 Mexico49.5%
24 Germany48.9%
25 Bulgaria48.8%
26 Israel48.3%
26 Slovakia48.3%
28 Poland44.9%
29 France43.4%
30 Sweden42.2%
31 Russian Federation40.0%
32 Taiwan37.6%
33 Japan 31.4%
34 Cyprus22.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2007

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -0.303012 X +6.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.061
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -20022.940113 X +48351.117
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -9.389138 X +82.932
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.419143 X +1.469
Correlation coefficient (r)0.113
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 13.526389 X +3.793
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086